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Anne Louise Germaine de Staël on Women

1766–1817 France

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4 quotes

Love is the whole history of a woman's life; it is an episode in a man's.

A man must know how to fly in the face of opinion; a woman to submit to it.

Delphine (1802)

When men do wrong, it is out of hardness; when women do wrong, it is out of weakness.

Corinne (1807)

The desire of the man is for the woman, but the desire of the woman is for the desire of the man.

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